Kaulbach

Kaulbach, Wilhelm von (1805-74), a German painter of the Dusseldorf and Munich School, was born at Arolsen, in Waldeck. He became the pupil of Cornelius at the Dusseldorf Academy, and in 1826 accompanied him to Munich, where in 1849 he became Director of the Academy of Painting. Here he executed for the King of Bavaria his Battle of the Huns and numerous mural decorations, and illustrated Faust, Reinecke, Fuclis, and other German classics. In 1847 he hegan to be engaged upon the decoration of the staircase of the Berlin New Museum, and in twenty years produced six enormous frescoes and numerous smaller designs.